The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 339
stinguish some pictures of powerful effect, if notin execution, at least for the ideas they are intended to convey ; we wouldspeak of the Dance of Death, or Dance of the Dead, like that whichexisted at Paris in the Cemetery of the Innocents, and another still tobe seen in the Abbey of Chaise-Dicu,… … Fig. 244.— Fraternity of the Cross-bowmen.(Fresco-Painting of the Fifteenth Century, in the ancient Chape] of St. John and St. Paul, Ghent.) with the exception of the Gothic frescoes still existing in the Cathedralof Toledo, representing the combats between the Moors and the Toledans…
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